Future

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Introduction

This page has info on an attempt to start a discussion about OpenStreetMap's future.

Why do we need this?

There has been a lot of discussions on the mailing lists, forums, IRC and other channels about project's direction/strategy/future. Everyone has ideas what they would like to see in the project, what they like or not about it. This initiative is supposed to provide a simple (accessible to everyone) platform to record and further discuss these ideas, merge them into larger topics and prepare a plan for future actions.

What this page is NOT

There is already a lot of pages in the wiki with wishlist or "to do" items. The idea for the Future page is to aggregate such ideas into larger topics, discuss why they have not been successfully implemented yet and go further - think about what can we do to implement them in the future.

Future (Working) Group

Ten OpenStreetMappers have created a Future Group (FG). The FG will encourage people and businesses to create a strategy and actions for OpenStreetMap by thinking about the enormous potential OpenStreetMap has for non-professional and professional mappers, developers and users. At present (October 2013) the FG consists of: